Health as a national idea

Doctors and demographers say that Ukraine as a territory will always exist. Another question: what people will live in it, if we, Ukrainians, will continue in the same spirit - as an irresponsible attitude towards their health.
Bermuda Triangle in Ukrainian
If you try to analyze the situation, it turns out that we ourselves are destroying their health. Today, you can blame their own government, the state of medicine, secret enemies that the Ukrainians as a nation is dying, but the fact remains a fact - almost all in this life depends on the person. "When they say: in order to improve the demographic situation in Ukraine, it is necessary to reform health care - that is nonsense - the director of the Institute of Demography and Social Research Institute NASU Ella Libanova. - By definition, the WHO experts, only 20% of the population's health depends on the state of medicine, and 50% - a way of life: food, alcohol, smoking, lack of physical activity.
A huge problem in our country - the lack of the ideal of health as a social prestige. Yet it is well placed accents in a developed society, where good health - an essential attribute of life. We, as in other FSU countries, the prestige is evaluated through the material well-being: a good car, apartment, villa. In achieving these goals man puts all his health, not thinking about that after he built a house, plant trees and grow up son, he has every chance of not seeing their grandchildren.
"Ukraine is in last place in Europe for the duration of life, worse than the situation in Russia - continues Ella Libanova. - I always say that in Ukraine there is a kind of Bermuda Triangle - men aged 40 to 60 practically disappear.
The root of evil in this case it is in human care attitude towards their health and great resourcefulness in the selection of prepositions ( "we" there "will" or "no time") to him not to watch. Most suffer those "heroes", with the dominant "socialist" attitude to their health: to transfer the disease to their feet - this is good, it means that a person sacrifices himself for his team and "common cause". Besides, he always postpones trip to the doctor, and then, perhaps, get to it already on a stretcher. Excuses become irrelevant only when a person hears the verdict of the doctor that would live only a few days or months.
"If we take the statistics, now in our country supersmertnost men - one in four die from lung cancer, one in ten of prostate cancer, one in five of stomach cancer, and the list goes on and on, - commented on the situation, Doctor of Medical Sciences, ex - Health Minister Yuri Spizhenko. - What determines the duration of life? From the three most important components: the environment, the state of medicine in the country and way of life. Yes, it is now impossible to clear all the rivers, recycle all the waste, but lifestyle change because you can. In simple words, the main principle of healthy living: eat less, move more. And this is already a lot of give. It would be a desire. Having bought the car, a man knows that he needs special care - inspection, high oil and gasoline, because the car had been invested large sums of money. Now evaluate yourself. Why are we lazy once in six months to go to the doctor for a visit? ".
Another point - self-medication. The main source of "advice" about what is useful and what is the best treatment, were the media and friends. On the TV show, as office workers maintain good spirits "superpoleznym" soup or instant noodles, children need every morning cereal or chips. A man in a white coat tells about various miracle drugs that can cure you of all diseases. How, after such a flow of "medical information" does not believe that much more familiar with the nutritionist and therapist sitting in the nearest clinic.
Price - health?
But still can not cast the whole burden of responsibility on the citizens. The momentum for the transition to a more civilized way of health care should give the state. According to the Executive Secretary of the Association of Psychiatrists of Ukraine, Director of the Ukrainian-American Bureau of Human Rights Semen Gluzman, Ukrainians are not inferior to their health than, for example, the Dutch. "We just conditions other - we are not accustomed to, when we explain that we, for example, eat. We are not accustomed to sports, just for the reason that we have no money. " Some simply can not afford to visit the section or fitness centers. "Recently I was with a colleague on a business trip in Switzerland. Four-hour trip to a health center with all the procedures cost us as much in a hundred hryvnia, "- says Ella Libanova. Of course, on those prices, ordinary Ukrainians could only dream of.
A great obstacle to a healthy lifestyle and health in general to the most is the level of material well-being. For if a man knows that he was sick, but he had no money for treatment, then until he gets the required amount in the body may already be taking an irreversible when the treatment is simply not help. And that is to speak of a qualitative survey in a private clinic, in which a general survey of the body will cost about two thousand hryvnia. For example, the $ 800 necessary to lay out a survey in a private clinic of one body for cancer, which is one of the leading causes of mortality among the population.
It should be noted that the decision of our citizens that go to the hospital or not affects the recent fashion of physicians to collaborate with some pharmaceutical companies.
"What's the point to go to the doctor if the patient is convinced that he understands the health care system better than him - said Semyon Gluzman. - Or the doctor thinks about how to pull money from the patient to unnecessary medication for you. We - the result of such education. For over eighteen years are not a reform in health care. Therefore, having received a prescription for medication, the patient is now twenty times think twice before they adopt. He has no confidence that the doctor does not cooperate with any company. First, the patient think about whether the doctor prescribed him the drugs, because they help improve their health, or welfare of the doctor.
Thinking about the future
The state of health of the nation need to think right now, worrying about the health of future generations. "I really disliked the fact that the health of our children begin to think and speak only when there are accidents - says Honored Master of Sport Denis Silantyev. - According to statistics, last year at school died four students who have had problems with the cardiovascular system. And the only way out of this situation, officials have seen only in reducing stress. I, as an athlete, I can say that the voyage as nothing else can help fight these diseases. But as the children can engage in this sport, if not in every region there are swimming pools, and if it is, they are just in terrible condition. There is no public health programs. I want to stress this point: in Ukraine beer and cigarettes more affordable than going to the gym. "
He is supported by Olympic champion gymnast Stella Zakharova: "Many politicians say they invest in the health of children, carried out charitable activities. Think what this money is invested - in treatment, but not in fact to prevent the disease.
Demographers say that "alter" the minds of people who are over fifty years, and change their outlook about their health is already useless, so the emphasis placed on the cost of people of younger age groups - up to thirty or younger.
The need for health appears, as a rule, in the case of the loss. As we do not think about our needs in the air and a healthy person does not notice the importance of caring about their health, perceiving it as a given. He believes in the sanctity and does not consider it necessary to take any special action to preserve and promote health, as well and all is well. Time to change the view that your health will think the state or anyone else. That is the question of healthy lifestyle and will focus on the cycle of materials on site "Glavred" in the nationwide program of Media Holding "Glavred Media", "Save the nation's health."